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More Barbarity Quotes

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• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the… — George VI
• We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to… — Thomas Merton
• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her… — John Ruskin
• Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable… — Brigitte Bardot
• Sooner barbarity than boredom. — Theophile Gautier
• I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier… — Frederick Douglass
• In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is… — Harry J. Anslinger
• Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior… — Jules Michelet
• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the… — Ernest Howard Crosby
• Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world,… — Frederick Douglass
• His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes .… — Bela Bartok

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